by mike | Oct 8, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Ghosts, Historical Novels, Horror, Humor, Life, Native Americans, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
When I first presented this post I had put seven years behind me following a health issue that nearly sent the Mother Ship down to take me home. Four more years have passed, so I’ve updated this post. As the challenging year of 2020 staggers to an end, I’ve had a...
by mike | Jun 11, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Publishing, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
When this post first ran in 2016, the title read, “Almost Done.” I’ve long since finished what I set out to do, as you’ll see in this revision. With the 2016 publication of my Sword & Planet novel, Slaves of Maldrinium, I came close to fulfilling a promise that I...
by mike | Jun 13, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
Last week I thanked ERB for being my inspiration to write. This 2012 post details his interesting life. (A great Kindle deal on a couple of my own “lost world” novels can be found at the end of this post.) In a recent post I noted that Edgar Rice Burroughs...
by mike | Jun 6, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post is an homage to my muse, Edgar Rice Burroughs. I can never say enough about this legendary author. In the 1980s I published a sword & sorcery novel titled, The Twentieth Son of Ornon (reissued a few years ago as The Sons of Ornon). It might have been my...
by mike | Feb 21, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Fantasy, Nightmares, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post, which contains a heck of a book promotion, first ran in 2015. In last week’s post I discussed a movie, The Whole Wide World, which chronicled a brief period of time in the all-too-short life of writer Robert E. Howard. Best known for his stories about Conan...
by mike | Feb 14, 2019 | Fantasy, Films About Writers, Movies, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
Robert E. Howard was one of my muses when I began my own writing career. This post ran four years ago. Who knew? While writing a post about Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan and the acknowledged “father” of Sword & Sorcery, I did research to make sure some of...
